Chapter 4 The Big Difference
really dug up something, Ma Kui, who originally didn't believe it in his heart, now believes the news brought by Lao Zhou. "Be careful, if you break something, I'll send you all to the militia brigade." With an anxious look on his face, Ma Kui paced back and forth in the pit, watching the pit get bigger and bigger, and the eagerness on Ma Kui's face was gradually replaced by ecstasy, because he had already seen the outline of the box being cleared out by his guerrillas.
There were six large wooden crates dug out of the field, four of which contained rifles, and the remaining two large wooden crates contained bullets and a light machine gun. And the last box contained some telephones and telephone lines, which were not seen by Ma Kui, but the ocean and paper money contained in the cloth bag in the corner, which made Ma Kui a little excited. Under Ma Kui's strict orders, the pit was further enlarged and dug deeper, but unfortunately no more wooden boxes like this could be excavated.
Although the rifles in the box were all old goods, and some of them were golden hook rifles that had long been retired by the Japanese army, but even so, Ma Kui and the other guerrillas were as happy as blooming trumpet flowers. "Count, count how many rifles there are." Ma Kui waved his hand, and the rifle in the wooden box was quickly taken out by everyone, and soon, Ma Kui got a specific number.
The news sent by the liaison officer Lao Zhou was that the Japanese puppet army in the county town was either dead or fleeing, and Ma Kui, who knew the number of enemies, originally thought that there would be more than 200 guns here, but there were only 200 rifles taken out of the box at the moment. In fact, Ma Kui didn't know that when Lu Yuan was chasing and killing the remnants of the Japanese army in the county, those Imperial Cooperative troops either left or fled, some of them took the initiative to lay down their weapons and leave like Lao Liu, and some of them fled with weapons like Mazi squad leaders.
The 200 rifles taken out of the box at this moment are all the rifles that Lu Yuan can find in Zhangwu County, but Ma Kui doesn't know why. "Captain, there are almost 20,000 rounds of bullets, and now we are really rich." The guerrillas who were in charge of counting the bullets would have been done with their work, and the numbers they reported made Marques laugh. 20,000 rounds of ammunition are evenly spread over 200 rifles, and each rifle can be rounded with a full 100 rounds of ammunition, even in the main force of the Eighth Route Army, it is impossible for the soldiers to distribute so many bullets.
"Captain, I still have more than a hundred* and three little devils' small hand cannons here, but no one in our team will use this thing." A gleeful guerrilla handed Ma Kui a Japanese grenadier cannon, a weapon they called a small hand cannon, which did not add many casualties to the guerrillas, but unfortunately no one in the guerrillas would use it. Ma Kui reached out and took the grenadier, looked back and forth for a while, and then handed it back.
"It's nothing, we won't use it, there will always be people in the main force who use it. When the time comes, let the instructor ask the superiors for instructions, and after the main force sends someone to teach us, we can also use this thing to teach the little devils. Ma Kui's words made all the guerrillas present laugh, they had all seen the power of this thing with their own eyes, and the thought that they too had the opportunity to fight with this thing could not help but rise with a burst of joy in their hearts.
"Alright, now that the things have been dug up, the rest is to send them back as soon as possible. Pillar, you take the people in your class and the two carts to the county seat with me for a while, and the rest of the people and carts are responsible for sending these things back, remember, after the things are moved, this big hole must be refilled, and the traces must be cleaned up. After the fun, Ma Kui did not forget that he had other things to do, and carefully explained his subordinates, Ma Kui took a squad of guerrillas and two taxis and went straight to the county seat.
They had already gone on the official road, and Ma Kui and they had a big car to travel, only a few miles away, and Ma Kui and the others soon saw the city wall of the county from afar. Looking at the situation at the city gate, it seems that everything is still the same as before, if you have to say the difference, it may be that the Japanese puppet soldiers who originally set up cards at the city gate are gone, replaced by some plainclothes men with red armbands, and their number is only three or four people.
Although Ma Kui, who did not know the inside story, already knew that there was no Japanese puppet army in the county, he still planned to enter the city in batches with his guerrillas according to his usual habits. Zhu Zi first took one of his subordinates disguised as a firewood seller, carried some firewood, and walked towards the city gate one after the other. Contrary to the expectations of the pillar and the guerrilla, the armband men at the gate of the city just glanced at the two of them casually, then ignored the two of them and let the pillar and the two swagger into the city.
Stopping far away, Ma Kui and the others, who pretended to feed the mules and horses, were a little dumbfounded, they didn't expect this city gate to be so easy to enter. After a dozen breaths, several women dressed as village women, some of them talked and laughed together, and the armband men who were squatting at the gate of the city not only did not come forward to stop them, but even one of them greeted those women in a loud voice. I don't know why, but the goods were hit in the thigh by a woman with a vegetable melon in a basket, causing the others to burst into laughter.
It seemed that everything was different from what Ma Kui imagined, and Ma Kui, who was anxious to figure out the reason, immediately tried to stop the other party when the women came over and asked each other to understand. Who knew that Ma Kui was standing in the middle of the road and posing as a blocker, and the women who were coming towards him stopped their steps together, and the one who smashed people with vegetables and melons just now had already turned around and shouted at the city gate, "Xie Laofu, Xie Laofu, come and help." ”
Almost at the same time, the armband men who were originally sitting lazily at the city gate got up and ran over quickly, and Ma Kui could see clearly that one of the men was already carrying a rifle in his hand. "Who are you? Why stop them here? What do you want to do? The men who ran over didn't even catch their breath, so they protected the women behind them, and the men at the head even picked up the rifles in their hands.
Again and again, things were out of Ma Kui's expectations, and it was not pleasant to be held at gunpoint, especially since Ma Kui was also the captain of the guerrillas. Ma Kui stepped back slightly, and spread his hands at the men opposite, and then said with a harmless face, "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, I haven't lived enough, be careful that your gun goes off." Ma Kui's reaction and words made these guarded men relax slightly, because listening to Ma Kui's accent, it should be someone from this area, since they are locals, things are much easier.
"We've been to the county seat before, it's not that we heard that there are no more little devils in the city yesterday, and the people in the village don't know if the news is true or not, so let's come and see the situation. Just now, I saw the two people carrying firewood and going in with straight eyebrows, I wanted to stop these sisters-in-law who came out of the city and ask what the situation in this county is now. Ma Kui tried to make himself look like a banker, and according to his own words, he told the reason.
"What should I do, if you ask about the situation in the city, why don't you just ask a few of us," the man with the rifle in his hand, after hearing Ma Kui's words, immediately put down the rifle in his hand, first turned around and said to the women that it was okay, and then reached out to take a cigarette from Ma Kui. "The news you heard is true, there are no more Japanese people in the city, and those yellow dogs have fled for their lives. Now anyone who wants to enter the city can do it, and a few of us just maintain order here at the city gate, and then open and close the city gate in the morning and evening. ”
After chatting a few words, Ma Kui finally understood that the armband men they had been wary of were not the ruffians in the city or the Imperial Association army who laid down their arms as he thought, these people were just ordinary people in the city, and they were just hired to maintain order at the city gate. ", send money once every two days, a piece of ocean each time, brother, tell me, where else can you find such a good thing." The man at the head of the group was very proud to find a piece of the ocean at this time, and kept playing with it in his hand.
Ma Kui's heart moved, and then he opened his mouth and asked, "The Japanese soldiers and yellow dogs in the city are gone, so who has the final say in the city now?" Ma Kui planned to continue to hide his true identity, so he couldn't ask directly about the mysterious man, so he came up with the question just now. said that they knew that these men heard Ma Kui's words, but they all shook their heads for a moment, and then they all grinned,
"The Japanese soldiers and yellow dogs are gone, but the county government is still there, but the county government is honest. I can't tell you clearly, but if you go into the city by yourself, you'll understand what I mean. The person who spoke was obviously stupid, and he said a lot of things vaguely, and in the end he asked Ma Kui and the others to go into the city to see it by themselves. Knowing that there was no danger in the city, Ma Kui and the others did not enter the city in batches, but entered the county seat through the city gate, and the oncoming noise made Ma Kui smile bitterly.
Before coming to the county seat, Ma Kui thought that the county town of Zhangwu should be as chaotic as bandits crossing the border at this moment. Who knows, what he sees at the moment is a scene of national peace and security, and the only thing that looks obstructive to the eyes may be the so-called policemen wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Cooperative Army and also wearing a red armband on their sleeves. After identifying the direction, Ma Kui and the others immediately rushed to another contact point of the guerrillas in the city, and Ma Kui was already a little eager to know about the mysterious man. In the dark, Ma Kui felt that this mysterious man who had not yet been masked would definitely bring him a greater surprise.